ATTACK ON FASCISM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19805, 28 November 1927, Page 10

ATTACK ON FASCISM.

MUSSOLINI AS DICTATOR,. (BRUTAL METHODS ALLEGED. f SIGNOR NITTi IN LONDON. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Nov. 25. "Italy is a prison where life is intolerable,!' said Signor Nitti, a former iPrinW Minister of Italy, who was the chief speaker at a conference of the "No jnoro war" movement in Westminster Hall. He made a remarkable attack on Fascism. Ho said Italy had abolished every safeguard of the individual and Every liberty. In spite of false statistics, the financial disorder was growing worse every day and production was diminishing. "There is a white dictatorship," be said. f which is equally as bloody and brutal lis a Red dictatorship, which is not justified by : any ideal, even a false one. Italy is indulging in violence against her adversaries. Houses are pillaged, sacked and devastated, and thousands of persons have been deported without trial. All the independent newspapers have been suppressed and Parliament has been suppressed in the process. No profession can bo carried on without the consent of the Government, and no free man can live in Italy. The Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, has never disguised lus will to war. All the baseists speak only of war, and when the dictator feels himself lost ho makes war. The dictator of Italy says ho forsees a war in which Italy must participate, time botween 1935 and 1940. Signer Francesco Saveno Nitti was born sti 1868. He was first a journalist, and entered Parliament in 1904 as a supporter of Signor Giolitti. He was in the Cabinet as Minister of Trade. In 1917 he was Minister of the Treasury under Signor Orlando. In 1919, when Orlando resigned, he formed a Cabinet, but was defeated in 1920. In 1921 his book, "Europe Without Peace" attracted much attention, as did other books on the postwar situation in Europe, including an indictment of Mussolini He had to leave Italy in 1926 He describes Fascism as a sort of inverted Bolshevism. He later settled in Paris.